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Summary

The generated prompt list, examples and code used to select data is distributed as part of FestVox. On line examples discussed in this paper are available from http://festvox.org/dataselect/.

We presented a method for finding a small set of utterances from a large database that optimally cover the acoustic-phonetic space with respect to a particular speaker. The quality of voice produced from the selection is far superior that a voice build form a more general database. The resulting voice is better for data, while retaining the style of the database from which it was trained.



Alan W Black 2001-08-26